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the city needed volunteers and runners. sawyer's life saving acts of courage aboard a steamboat, which mark twain had a particular horror, awaken the journalist at night and set him shaking cloud of cigar smoke. for that reason he had sweat rolling down his brow. his story of fire and explosion on board the steamboat independence. in which hundreds died. the steamer was launched in new york city on christmas day of 1850. it did not reach sentences go for the first time until september 17, 1851. a white trail almost abandoned. between houses peer and clay street wharf. the exhaust steam escape into the air like a virginia city hot spring. i'm going to leave out the shipwreck, which is pretty horrible. tom sawyer actually swam the people sure on his back through swarms of sharks. he is credited with saving 90 people. i'm thinking about 150 died. and then they were shipwrecked for a while. he came back to san francisco. that is when he was making his mark. he went back and came back in 1859. i thought you might enjoy this. a b
the city needed volunteers and runners. sawyer's life saving acts of courage aboard a steamboat, which mark twain had a particular horror, awaken the journalist at night and set him shaking cloud of cigar smoke. for that reason he had sweat rolling down his brow. his story of fire and explosion on board the steamboat independence. in which hundreds died. the steamer was launched in new york city on christmas day of 1850. it did not reach sentences go for the first time until september 17, 1851....
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the city desperately needs volunteers and needed runners like i had been in new york city even more. sawyer's 90 lifesaving acts of courage had taken place onboard a burning steam boat of which twain had a particular horror, the kind of dread that wakens a journalist at night and set him shake anything includes of cigar -- shaking in clouds of cigar smoke. for that reason he listened attentively, sweat rolling down his brow to sawyer's story of fire and explosion onboard the steam boat independence. in which hundreds died from hideous scalds. the steamer, launch inside new york city on christmas day 1850, did not reach san francisco for the first time until september 17th, 1851. blasting her whistle, laying a wide trail of foam and thrashing her bad les with -- paddles with abandon, the independence glided toward long wharf, an edges tension between holdson's peer and quaint street wharf. the cloud of white steam hanging above her was normal. in such noncondensing engines as her, the exhaust steam escapes into the air like a virginia city hot spring. so i'm going to leave out the shi
the city desperately needs volunteers and needed runners like i had been in new york city even more. sawyer's 90 lifesaving acts of courage had taken place onboard a burning steam boat of which twain had a particular horror, the kind of dread that wakens a journalist at night and set him shake anything includes of cigar -- shaking in clouds of cigar smoke. for that reason he listened attentively, sweat rolling down his brow to sawyer's story of fire and explosion onboard the steam boat...
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can you talk about how that works in the city? >> i have had lots of conversations with people who were in tough times, famous people like tyler perry who was homeless and living in a car, to people i know throughout my community who have dealt with brutal hatred because they came out of the closet at a young age. all these stories is amazing to me that all these people, stories about how young person, one small act of kindness was a differencemaker for the amended gives me chills to think we all have that power. the biggest thing we do in any day could be a small act of kindness for someone else. the vulnerability, the fragility of life, in cities like ours in new york and new jersey and how it doesn't take that much effort to be there for our kids. i was very happy during sandy we did some things to raise through covenant house and the cooperation of extraordinary people to raise a lot of money because it doesn't take that much money to give a person the doorway of hope. the last thing i will say is for me i get very upset becau
can you talk about how that works in the city? >> i have had lots of conversations with people who were in tough times, famous people like tyler perry who was homeless and living in a car, to people i know throughout my community who have dealt with brutal hatred because they came out of the closet at a young age. all these stories is amazing to me that all these people, stories about how young person, one small act of kindness was a differencemaker for the amended gives me chills to...
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there are kids in this city and in every major city in the united states who are being bought and sold. yes on the internet but also by corner pimps and gangs and cartels who make a lot of money off the backs of these kids. we have a long way to go in this country talking openly about that and acknowledging young people continue to be exploited and that some boys in this country continue to think it is okay to go into the city for a night and get a hooker. a lot of times that hooker happens to be a homeless kid whose family wouldn't or couldn't take care of her. that is true tonight in this city as well. >> what is, what is does your program specifically do to help kids who are victims the sex trade? >> so the question is, what does covenant house do for kids who are victim of the sex trade? there is both what we do individually with young people and then the public policy questions that we're working to tackle. so first, the latter. we work with other ngo leaders across the country either as participants in, or state-based coalitions, improving, improving legislation that protects sur
there are kids in this city and in every major city in the united states who are being bought and sold. yes on the internet but also by corner pimps and gangs and cartels who make a lot of money off the backs of these kids. we have a long way to go in this country talking openly about that and acknowledging young people continue to be exploited and that some boys in this country continue to think it is okay to go into the city for a night and get a hooker. a lot of times that hooker happens to...
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, cities could grow that were consumer cities, places where people wanted to live. that's one way of understanding why there's no variable that were the predicts metropolitan area growth than january temperature. above all, meshes went -- americans went towards places that have warmer januaries. now, that is both a challenge and an opportunity because, in fact, we only survive by attracting and retaining talent. and that's not easy. part of it involves getting the basics of city government right. part of it does involve affordable housing, short commutes, low crime rates, livable neighborhoods. but a lot of it is also about fun because the reason why 20-somethings live overwhelmingly in cities is to be near other 20-somethings and to take advantage of fixed-cost things like the boston urban library. now, i'm not going to make any particular comments about our culture here in boston, but it is true that if there are regulations that make it definitely to innovate, if there are barriers erected by various social groups that make it difficult for smart people to come u
, cities could grow that were consumer cities, places where people wanted to live. that's one way of understanding why there's no variable that were the predicts metropolitan area growth than january temperature. above all, meshes went -- americans went towards places that have warmer januaries. now, that is both a challenge and an opportunity because, in fact, we only survive by attracting and retaining talent. and that's not easy. part of it involves getting the basics of city government...
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this city shimmered with the news as the prince of wales was coming. a group of leading citizens was organizing a ball. society trimmed their moustaches women spent hours and at 9:00 p.m. friday october 12th couples who had paid $10 apiece arrived at the academy of music. men with white ties and women with hoopskirt its with brocade, sat tin, lead tools, gave special nods to precisely at 10:00 p.m. the orchestra played god save the queen and the small prints stepped into the room. nearly 3,000 of new york's finest citizens rushed to meet him and with the rash the wooden floor collapsed. the band played furiously the aghast rushed to follow they had lobster salad, pat day and filled glasses with champagne. at 2:00 with their dance floor fixed eager females waited their turn for a dance and finally the young woman was tapped. stunning in her low cut white gown with pink and her arms covered with long white gloves with ostrich feathers, it hetty was introduced to the prince of wales. and she said i am the princess of wales. you are proof of that as all of
this city shimmered with the news as the prince of wales was coming. a group of leading citizens was organizing a ball. society trimmed their moustaches women spent hours and at 9:00 p.m. friday october 12th couples who had paid $10 apiece arrived at the academy of music. men with white ties and women with hoopskirt its with brocade, sat tin, lead tools, gave special nods to precisely at 10:00 p.m. the orchestra played god save the queen and the small prints stepped into the room. nearly 3,000...
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the city was a mess. the school is under assault. he believed that going back and running the school and providing leadership at a time of crisis was the best thing to do for an institution that is loved and he gave his life to the school was assassinated in january of 9094. >> by who and how? >> most likely by the fanatical wing of hezbollah, a group known as islamist jihads the comprised lebanese shia who had historically been underprivileged, excluded from the politics and economics of the country, had ideological affinity for the regime in iran, from 1979 and have been radical in the israeli purge to lebanon in the 1980s. there is a very toxic mix that let them should make steps the climax of the assassination of malcolm kerr. >> was he targeted? >> because he was an american. not only american, but very visible presence in the middle east. there is no more high-profile example of america's involvement in the region in the presence of uav. >> this american university put in beirut on purpose? back in 1850s, what was beirut like?
the city was a mess. the school is under assault. he believed that going back and running the school and providing leadership at a time of crisis was the best thing to do for an institution that is loved and he gave his life to the school was assassinated in january of 9094. >> by who and how? >> most likely by the fanatical wing of hezbollah, a group known as islamist jihads the comprised lebanese shia who had historically been underprivileged, excluded from the politics and...
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>> in baltimore city for instance we have 38% of adult illiteracy rate. >> why, 38%? >> and that is totally ill or it and then you think about five to 10 more percent that are barely letter it and people, that's why when we looked at technology as a way that is nonthreatening in a sense that they are reading with these tools so we are we are trying to grab them however we can. >> do you know, how many libraries -- and this is a broad question in a way. since literacy is obviously a -- and i support ms. smith in new york with the literacy program where she raises money and also a lot of other things but how many libraries or how many public institutions apart from the schools and i'm talking about libraries, actually of literacy programs for people who can't read a word and are totally ashamed even to admit it? >> oh, many. the american library association is strong on this issue and we have adult literacy with very large dimensions in the country, some have related to immigration and some of it related to a greater amount of dyslexia that we ever imagined. and so, and
>> in baltimore city for instance we have 38% of adult illiteracy rate. >> why, 38%? >> and that is totally ill or it and then you think about five to 10 more percent that are barely letter it and people, that's why when we looked at technology as a way that is nonthreatening in a sense that they are reading with these tools so we are we are trying to grab them however we can. >> do you know, how many libraries -- and this is a broad question in a way. since literacy is...
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city left turn or to permit him to america , and his economics became more popular never as popular as milton friedman, but certainly a heroic figure in my book. one of his students -- close associates won the nobel prize in economics in 1974. so he is an important character in my book. >> what does that mean? >> well, the austrian school is one of two major free-market schools of economics. the other school is the chicago school the milton friedman and george stevens developed in the 60's. and this is a more hard core school that advocates the gold standard. very suspicious of intervention, the central banks, particularly the austrian business cycle is really important because they basically say the manipulation of interest rates by the federal reserve can only have disastrous effects. a boom bust cycle that is unsustainable or a boom that is unsustainable. so it did not surprise austrian economists that the real-estate boom could not last and have the macroeconomics facts. it. >> paul sleazy. >> i have of a big chapter on marks. a new dark age. the kind of know my views. each chapter
city left turn or to permit him to america , and his economics became more popular never as popular as milton friedman, but certainly a heroic figure in my book. one of his students -- close associates won the nobel prize in economics in 1974. so he is an important character in my book. >> what does that mean? >> well, the austrian school is one of two major free-market schools of economics. the other school is the chicago school the milton friedman and george stevens developed in...
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the city said you give you 1 acre of land for free to build a new home. of course, he relocated the property he did not have to pay for. he would of had to have the burden of every expense you would enter. this is the first mill skinner had it went up six months to the day of the flood. in holyoke. and ultimately skinners mill turned into that. the largest silk mill under one roof in the world. 1874, a success of this scope was impossible to imagine. and what what it would take to achieve that. 1874, skinner thought he was the head of his game. 49 years old, a wife, seven children, a village of 200 growing up around his mill, the head of the american soap trade, bullish on the pgm believed silk would become big business. it did. 87 before he thought how can i expand my business today? he would say what is the biggest room in the world? the room for improvement with 1874 he was looking to improve the business bullish on the future looking ahead. how could he become even better? with that i will read an excerpt from the book that i will take questions. i ap
the city said you give you 1 acre of land for free to build a new home. of course, he relocated the property he did not have to pay for. he would of had to have the burden of every expense you would enter. this is the first mill skinner had it went up six months to the day of the flood. in holyoke. and ultimately skinners mill turned into that. the largest silk mill under one roof in the world. 1874, a success of this scope was impossible to imagine. and what what it would take to achieve that....
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where you're going in the city because it's dangerous city and there are eruption of violence, but in the end i found in this city and in many other more or less dangerous places in the world, the way to go about it is simply to go, and to do your business, and to talk to people and go away again, and you discover the overwhelming majority of people are good people, and even many who are not, will at least by courteous to you. >> something you address is the term "suicide bomber." what does that mean to you. >> well, some case it's not actually a suicide bomber at all. the center of the incident appeared to be a suicide bombing. later turn out not to be one. it was bomb left in what looked like a mail box. it was a box that was for damaged korans and other pieces of scripture to be properly disposed of, and someone actually put a bomb in that box, which to me is prayerfully, prayerfully -- powerfully symbolic. i think suicide bombing is a lot -- as terrifying as it sounds is a lot less common today than in the past. people are finding ways to remote detonate explosives. they're using
where you're going in the city because it's dangerous city and there are eruption of violence, but in the end i found in this city and in many other more or less dangerous places in the world, the way to go about it is simply to go, and to do your business, and to talk to people and go away again, and you discover the overwhelming majority of people are good people, and even many who are not, will at least by courteous to you. >> something you address is the term "suicide...
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in the midst 50s, like in the outer boroughs of new york city, in my case the bronx, was comfortable but provincial comments and my curiosity extended far beyond the bounds of my home and school. i wanted to know more about people in other places, what was happening in the world now, what had happened in the past, and quite simply how i came to be. books were my passport and i consumed them voraciously but i came to writing later than most, in my late 30s after having raised my three children. my generation, those of us born during and after world war ii, numbered in the millions and we were asking questions that demanded to be answered. we had come of age in the heat of the escalating war in vietnam and we didn't know why our brothers were fighting so far away for a cause that was so difficult to understand and the role of women in society was changing rapidly. my friends, educated with traditional values but a deep sense of personal ambition wanted to know how to be true to ourselves yet remain committed to our husbands and our children. as a young mother i had stumbled into a book
in the midst 50s, like in the outer boroughs of new york city, in my case the bronx, was comfortable but provincial comments and my curiosity extended far beyond the bounds of my home and school. i wanted to know more about people in other places, what was happening in the world now, what had happened in the past, and quite simply how i came to be. books were my passport and i consumed them voraciously but i came to writing later than most, in my late 30s after having raised my three children....
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i don't think they were traitors or anybody, and the greatness of value, and they hated cities and thought there was something wrong with success and material comfort, you were more virtuous if you have old clothes rather than new clothes. i draw a line, those who aren't. that gets me into a lot of trouble, i hardly dared developed the idea even in this company. >> we have time for one more question if there is one more question. >> i have got to thank the panelists, allows me to break my vow never to use one of these forums to make a statement but i couldn't resist. the more or less government arguments is a dead end for conservatives. without addressing the fundamental factors that drive public demand, connected to the complexity of society and rapid technological change because rulemaking as eleanor rostrum demonstrated in her work is an effort to stabilize expectations about the future. way out is to think about governance because governance is about the things that government does that help people stabilize their expectations about the future and manage the risks that come with living
i don't think they were traitors or anybody, and the greatness of value, and they hated cities and thought there was something wrong with success and material comfort, you were more virtuous if you have old clothes rather than new clothes. i draw a line, those who aren't. that gets me into a lot of trouble, i hardly dared developed the idea even in this company. >> we have time for one more question if there is one more question. >> i have got to thank the panelists, allows me to...
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of 6.8 degrees fahrenheit by 2075, which would cause a total loss of snowpack in the park city resort area. the park city foundation report estimates that this will result in thousands of lost jobs, tensions of millions in
of 6.8 degrees fahrenheit by 2075, which would cause a total loss of snowpack in the park city resort area. the park city foundation report estimates that this will result in thousands of lost jobs, tensions of millions in
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she was born in a very small town and would have been a sharecropper but had her sights on the big city. as you say there were quarters and the lives they lead, led, some of that has been glamorized but reading your book, they worked day and night sometimes for three hours, so i got a real view of that. the other thing i liked as you pull in the different characters and put them in different places you also talked about the black newspapers of the day. tell us how important they were. >> the first lady's family ended up in chicago quite early. great migration you often think about after world war i. her great-grandmother was there by 1908. folks came in the 20s and 30s and as a resource they did live in chicago, lucky to have the chicago defender which was -- which advocated -- calls people to move north. the newspaper from that time gives you a portrait of what life was like and it was invaluable. >> i think we are going to move to our q&a at this point in time. let's give rachel a big hand first. >> thank you. [applause] >> you are welcome to move to the mike. >> hello. i don't know i
she was born in a very small town and would have been a sharecropper but had her sights on the big city. as you say there were quarters and the lives they lead, led, some of that has been glamorized but reading your book, they worked day and night sometimes for three hours, so i got a real view of that. the other thing i liked as you pull in the different characters and put them in different places you also talked about the black newspapers of the day. tell us how important they were. >>...
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i saw in my own family that my mother, one brother was in new york city cop and one was a firefighter, they were working in the increasingly dangerous city and there was a sense that change had moved too fast and we needed to put it back in the bottle if we could. this is the sense that republicans exploited. i like to remind people that five days after lyndon johnson signed the voting rights act, riots erupted in flames. it was the beginning of the nixone n\ where the l.a. police chief blamed the turmoil on those people, meaning democrats, too much too soon and they told black people about racism and they were being mistreated rather than they were being mistreated. in some of my research i found the lyndon johnson right afterwards said i have done more for these people than any other president, how could they be doing this to me? there was a sense of awe cause and effected between beginning to reckon with allegis the -- legacy of slavery and the unrest that followed. i write a lot about race in my book but when i look backpacking actually the war had more to do with parts of the cou
i saw in my own family that my mother, one brother was in new york city cop and one was a firefighter, they were working in the increasingly dangerous city and there was a sense that change had moved too fast and we needed to put it back in the bottle if we could. this is the sense that republicans exploited. i like to remind people that five days after lyndon johnson signed the voting rights act, riots erupted in flames. it was the beginning of the nixone n\ where the l.a. police chief blamed...
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you may not know it but in the 1940s, the city council of new york city had elections based on proportional representation so you would get a seat in the city council of new york if you got x% of the vote. if you got twice that you would get two seats which is how the following happened. amen named ben davis, benjamin davis won s c and city council of new york in the 1940s. you might be interested in two aspect of benjamin davis, city council member. he was black. he was an african-american and he was an enthusiastic public leader of the united states communist party and he was elected because of proportional representation. shortly after that proportional representation was ended. new democracy came in first, they had twenty-eight%. ari arizahad 24 or something close. under greek law whatever party comes in first gets not only the percentage of the popular vote that is won but an extra 50. that is the only reason there the government in greece now because they got it by this rule which is designed to favor the party that comes in first. you had a knife edge situation in greece. in addition
you may not know it but in the 1940s, the city council of new york city had elections based on proportional representation so you would get a seat in the city council of new york if you got x% of the vote. if you got twice that you would get two seats which is how the following happened. amen named ben davis, benjamin davis won s c and city council of new york in the 1940s. you might be interested in two aspect of benjamin davis, city council member. he was black. he was an african-american and...
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he is the on the kansas city president. >> i am from kansas city. >> could we pause for a minute? where did you go to high school? >> she is from johnson county. it is okay. that is called cupcake plant >> i have read your humorous books but the favorite is about alice what is your favorite the you have written? >> that would be one of them i have written a lot of different kinds. it is apples and oranges for comparison. and another way to look at it and never got my act together but about alice maybe. >> did your mom they call the pies for the restaurant? >> they were naturally lead baked by a black woman named thelma. [laughter] i have often talked about my mother's cooking. 30 years she served nothing but leftovers. [laughter] i was out of college before i realized leftover from what? that the original was never found. they were lucky she did not take the prize. we had 50 years 60 things on the table then she wooded jump up in the middle to say she forgot the jello mold. mother always said everything tastes better on the second day. i don't know about the fourth day. >> i met m
he is the on the kansas city president. >> i am from kansas city. >> could we pause for a minute? where did you go to high school? >> she is from johnson county. it is okay. that is called cupcake plant >> i have read your humorous books but the favorite is about alice what is your favorite the you have written? >> that would be one of them i have written a lot of different kinds. it is apples and oranges for comparison. and another way to look at it and never got...
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army sprayed ddt in a million civilians in naples, italy and halted a typhus outbreak in the city. through the 1940s in the 1950s and into the early 1960s, ddt goes everywhere and acid jazz, other insect decide chemically similar insecticide that develops another is the whole red pesticides in common use. initially a military setting, but then after the war and forestry, aquaculture, residential. these things are used in hospitals, commercial buildings and lots of different projects. one of the problems are spreading poison from airplanes as it's really hard to control where it goes and yet the system extensively. these are all classics. i grew up in florida preservice encephalitis, an epidemic against a brain disease and tracks like this that come through my neighborhood than i did my brothers and i would run out and get his teeth into the murky as we possibly could because it was really fun. i can, it is everywhere, thought to be harmless to people. although i should say that person's interest in ddt was based on evidence that it is not entirely safe. fish and wildlife service ha
army sprayed ddt in a million civilians in naples, italy and halted a typhus outbreak in the city. through the 1940s in the 1950s and into the early 1960s, ddt goes everywhere and acid jazz, other insect decide chemically similar insecticide that develops another is the whole red pesticides in common use. initially a military setting, but then after the war and forestry, aquaculture, residential. these things are used in hospitals, commercial buildings and lots of different projects. one of the...
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it's not difficult across the surface of the world in 80 days though you can fly around in our city can afford the ticket and get the password and the visas. when i returned from sea, back on land, i looks for histories around the world travel. there was none so i wrote one. now, i very quickly decided early on in the project that there was no point in trying to document all of the circumnavigation's that existed. i didn't want to write an encyclopedia. i wanted to explain why circumnavigation is distinctidistincti ve, why do we have the term around the world or circumnavigation? what do these mean? white is going around the world matter in a the broader scheme of things? it shows how human beings have been thinking for themselves on a planetary scale for a long time for nearly 500 years. this is really significant. we think a planetary consciousness is recent, something developed in modern times, something we have the people in the past didn't and we especially associate this realization of things on a planetary scale with their ongoing environmental crisis which we think of as unprece
it's not difficult across the surface of the world in 80 days though you can fly around in our city can afford the ticket and get the password and the visas. when i returned from sea, back on land, i looks for histories around the world travel. there was none so i wrote one. now, i very quickly decided early on in the project that there was no point in trying to document all of the circumnavigation's that existed. i didn't want to write an encyclopedia. i wanted to explain why circumnavigation...
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another rambunctious event in the city of boston. so just right outside this building itself. now we are going to turn to the panel discussion, which is in the fashion of a question-and-answer session. this mike in the middle of the i/o is for you to step up to, ask your questions to the panel. right now i will introduce you to the panelists. beginning with bob allison from esa chair of the history department at the university just on this tree. yes it teaches at harvard extension school in a suffered several books on the american revolution, most recently a 2011 book entitled the american revolution, a concise history. he is the vice president of the cornell society massachusetts, trustee of the uss comes to touche museum also in the freedom trail and the commonwealth to see them in boston. he also serves the bostonian society as a member of our board's advisory committee. so with that, bob alice in. [applause] >> next we'll move to jon kyl. john does a curator of the book lost in 1775 from a site dedicated to history, analysis and unabashed gossett asserted the american revo
another rambunctious event in the city of boston. so just right outside this building itself. now we are going to turn to the panel discussion, which is in the fashion of a question-and-answer session. this mike in the middle of the i/o is for you to step up to, ask your questions to the panel. right now i will introduce you to the panelists. beginning with bob allison from esa chair of the history department at the university just on this tree. yes it teaches at harvard extension school in a...
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but it really was another kansas city better in the kansas city journalism, the great military writer, rick atkins, who opened my eyes that i could actually write this book because he had launched into his trilogy on world war ii. the third book comes out next year. make sure you buy it. it's wonderful stuff. he won the pulitzer prize for the first volume and it was doing so well. a patch myself, a lot of books have been about world war ii also. but it's possible to write a great one. the reason all these books are written is because these events are important and are interesting. and so, that sort of freak me to think that i can do the book i wanted to do instead of just a book that i thought strategically would be. so it was really just the idea of not wanting not to do a book about abraham lincoln. one more. yeah, roger. we'll do as many -- i'll take them all night. >> of the three-part question. the first did you attend the the movie premiered at spielberg's lincoln? the second part is, did you meet steven spielberg? in the third part of this is your book how to drive the attendan
but it really was another kansas city better in the kansas city journalism, the great military writer, rick atkins, who opened my eyes that i could actually write this book because he had launched into his trilogy on world war ii. the third book comes out next year. make sure you buy it. it's wonderful stuff. he won the pulitzer prize for the first volume and it was doing so well. a patch myself, a lot of books have been about world war ii also. but it's possible to write a great one. the...
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"the new york times" about three weeks ago or so, a little box, a warbler had appeared in new york city, in manhattan. the time to photograph it and made a reference to the work of, we're going to talk about today. and then i think a classic, enhanced by the seemingly never ending decades of controversy in which the defenders of alger hiss tried to make their slanders of the author of "witness" stick. today, i want to introduce the three panelists, and this is an amazingly powerful group we have here. all at once, and then leave it to them, they will take it over. each i hope making the remarks about 10 minutes, and then we will put it to the floor for further discussion. elliott abrams has had a remarkable string of positions, of enormous importance. i know him going back to the early reagan years. he began, my knowledge, with human rights. that was really something intellectually to come in behind the jimmy carter, human rights and the state department through pat gary and. in charge of latin american affairs, and then positions in the white house. in every case, he really always brou
"the new york times" about three weeks ago or so, a little box, a warbler had appeared in new york city, in manhattan. the time to photograph it and made a reference to the work of, we're going to talk about today. and then i think a classic, enhanced by the seemingly never ending decades of controversy in which the defenders of alger hiss tried to make their slanders of the author of "witness" stick. today, i want to introduce the three panelists, and this is an amazingly...
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if you went into sadr city, you want to make sure you have security. it is better than a was before come a million times better than 06 and 07 and from a military perspective, the search did drive down the level of violence. it's going to made it possible for american forces to leave, but there's a lot of unsettled political issues, including the worrisome trend towards authoritarianism by the iraqi government. >> michael gordon's new book, "the endgame: the inside story of the struggle for iraq, from george w. bush to barack obama." mr. gordon, it's november 2012 right now. how many americans are in iraq as we speak? >> there's no american troops were many military functions are there's 200 odd person out who succumbed to the embassy and their primary duty is to sell american military equipment to the iraqi government, f-16s and the like as an act tachÉ function. then there's a fairly sizable american embassy, which is contracted by the state department, reduced by 25%. but what you don't have the mesa consulate and kurdistan and a consulate outside
if you went into sadr city, you want to make sure you have security. it is better than a was before come a million times better than 06 and 07 and from a military perspective, the search did drive down the level of violence. it's going to made it possible for american forces to leave, but there's a lot of unsettled political issues, including the worrisome trend towards authoritarianism by the iraqi government. >> michael gordon's new book, "the endgame: the inside story of the...
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he will drop a hydro jen bomb on new york city. that's what happens in the novel. anyway, and, by the way, we're all familiar with the president walking around. i don't know if it's still the case in the missile age walking around always with an airman with him with a black bag, like a doctor's bag, and there are the codes. the codes are changed every day how to arm the bombs on a particular day. these two bombs came down, and the conventional explosions went off, just went off. miraclously didn't hurt anybody, but split the bomb open means that the plutonium, the most deadliest substance that we can imagine, all came out. the bomb split open and it all came out, just a little black cloud. miraclously, normally when you're at the seaside, the wind blows off from the sea. for some reason, that day the wind blew off the land. most of the plutonium was blown out into the med -- mediterranean, not necessarily a great thing either, but better than landing on these poor people in the town. some of the plutonium is spread all around so the people from the town left. they
he will drop a hydro jen bomb on new york city. that's what happens in the novel. anyway, and, by the way, we're all familiar with the president walking around. i don't know if it's still the case in the missile age walking around always with an airman with him with a black bag, like a doctor's bag, and there are the codes. the codes are changed every day how to arm the bombs on a particular day. these two bombs came down, and the conventional explosions went off, just went off. miraclously...
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they're in high-rises in cities, they're in greenfield siepts out in suburban areas, they're tucked away in the back of offices, because they are the way that most commerce takes place now. so everyone has to have one. there are concentrations of them in the country. i looked in northern virginia, obviously, silicon valley's another spot, but they're really everywhere at this point. >> host: who runs them? >> guest: a variety of players. i mean, for one thing, um, companies that need these for their regular business own some of these data centers, everything from walmart to microsoft. but there's also a culture or a commerce of renting space in data centers, huge data centers, and those are lesser known names like ec by nix was mention inside the piece that will sell you time on servers. >> host: mr. glanz, what's contained within these warehouses buildings? >> guest: well, they're actually fairly boring places to visit. they're all stacked with these computers, modular computers called servers, one after the other after the other. it doesn't look like much, but they draw a lot of electr
they're in high-rises in cities, they're in greenfield siepts out in suburban areas, they're tucked away in the back of offices, because they are the way that most commerce takes place now. so everyone has to have one. there are concentrations of them in the country. i looked in northern virginia, obviously, silicon valley's another spot, but they're really everywhere at this point. >> host: who runs them? >> guest: a variety of players. i mean, for one thing, um, companies that...
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michael bloomberg a great example, he is banning the cuts in new york city. so that and we are talking about, that ideology on the left, the progressive ideology. swatter some of the mifsud are commonly held by today's progress of squawks i've got about five myths that we tend to focus on the first to because those are the big juicy ideas and the bad ideas one is the natural things are good and number two, on the natural things are bad. number three, unchecked science will destroy us. number four, science is only relative any way, and number five, science is on our side. okay. the first one we learn all about them there. we are going to talk mostly about the most famous progressive today, president barack obama and his resume when it comes to science, but just to give you an idea about why these are important, natural things are good. that's behind the organic food movement. the rejection of the organic the modified to. unnatural things are bad. that is the fear of chemical and bpa, the fear of chemistry and the things that are unnatural and pesticides, ferti
michael bloomberg a great example, he is banning the cuts in new york city. so that and we are talking about, that ideology on the left, the progressive ideology. swatter some of the mifsud are commonly held by today's progress of squawks i've got about five myths that we tend to focus on the first to because those are the big juicy ideas and the bad ideas one is the natural things are good and number two, on the natural things are bad. number three, unchecked science will destroy us. number...
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he did a series of focus groups and city have a problem. it's called correction. the guys who you are talking to were the guys who were corrupt. [laughter] and they said to him, this is his description, not mine. a number of guys who are fairly overweight smoking cigars in this room, going you don't understand this. you're clearly a gringo. people don't find corruption. he sent them to get this straight. you think the average american gets up on monday morning because stewart thrilled with the idea that two of the five-day salary will be stolen by some fat machine politician? said they found him later that day and lost the election. there's a message there. people don't come to america to re-create that government under watching sacramento reinvent really bad government. [applause] >> we've got time for about tumor questions. , over here. >> thank you for coming, mr. speaker. i was looking forward to debating barack obama. that would have been amazing. [cheers and applause] one of the things that was really noticeable impalpable in the last year of the presidentia
he did a series of focus groups and city have a problem. it's called correction. the guys who you are talking to were the guys who were corrupt. [laughter] and they said to him, this is his description, not mine. a number of guys who are fairly overweight smoking cigars in this room, going you don't understand this. you're clearly a gringo. people don't find corruption. he sent them to get this straight. you think the average american gets up on monday morning because stewart thrilled with the...
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[laughter] and roosevelt said political power in this city is decided in those saloons. and you can sit up here in your penthouse all you want, but i want to be in the room where the decision is made. i'll take your word "demographic." i don't, and this is where i so deeply disagree with our consulting class and, candidly, with one of the comments of our last nominee. i don't see demographic problems. what do you think asian-americans want? they want a good education for their kids. they're passionate about their children. they love their children. they invest heavily in their children. they invest more heavily in their children than any other ethnic group in america. what kind of future do you think they want? just saw a survey in the morning that came out. guess what the number one validation of achievement as seen by college students is today when you say from them 25-30 years from now how do you know you'll be successful, you know what it is? owning a house. now, if you were a true left-wing collectivist who wanted to herd everybody into apartments so they could be c
[laughter] and roosevelt said political power in this city is decided in those saloons. and you can sit up here in your penthouse all you want, but i want to be in the room where the decision is made. i'll take your word "demographic." i don't, and this is where i so deeply disagree with our consulting class and, candidly, with one of the comments of our last nominee. i don't see demographic problems. what do you think asian-americans want? they want a good education for their kids....
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i was a colleague of arthur schlessinger or at the city university of new york. he introduced me to the kennedy family at a -- some event, i don't know what it was, a reception, a dinner. i met with jean kennedy smith be, ambassador smith for the first time, and i had recently, i was finishing up my hearst book, and in my hearst biography, i had used a treasure-trove of materials that jean kennedy smith's daughter who was writing a collection, who was compiling letters from her father to her automatics -- to her aunts and uncles had put me on to. and in that treasure-trove of material, letters from william randolph can hearst to joseph kennedy and back and forth, i glimpsed a man who was different from everything i had heard about him. so i told jean kennedy smith at some point that her daughter should write a biography of her grandfather. and that the man was absolutely fascinating. it's a good word to use when you don't know if you're going to be writing about -- [laughter] you know, a villain or a hero. it was fascinating, i said, and somebody should do a biog
i was a colleague of arthur schlessinger or at the city university of new york. he introduced me to the kennedy family at a -- some event, i don't know what it was, a reception, a dinner. i met with jean kennedy smith be, ambassador smith for the first time, and i had recently, i was finishing up my hearst book, and in my hearst biography, i had used a treasure-trove of materials that jean kennedy smith's daughter who was writing a collection, who was compiling letters from her father to her...
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fascinating the way in which this infrastructure we've created has sort of, you know, built itself up on our cities and on our coasts and, you know, brought me right back to square one in terms of piquing my curiosity about how all these systems fit together. not just the internet, but power and aviation and all these large, incredibly complicated things that we depend on so much. >> host: "tubes" is the name of the book, "a journey to the center of the internet," and andrew blum is the author. this is "the communicators" on c-span. >> with a month left in 2012, many publications are putting together their year-end lists of notable books. booktv will feature several of these lists focusing on nonfiction selections. these nonfiction titles were included in the los angeles public library's best of 2012. salman rushdie recounts his years in hiding following a fatwa issued in 1989 for mr. rushdie's authorship of the novel, "the satanic verses." in "roger williams and the creation of the american soul: church, state and the birth of liberty," john barry recounts the life of the theologian and his though
fascinating the way in which this infrastructure we've created has sort of, you know, built itself up on our cities and on our coasts and, you know, brought me right back to square one in terms of piquing my curiosity about how all these systems fit together. not just the internet, but power and aviation and all these large, incredibly complicated things that we depend on so much. >> host: "tubes" is the name of the book, "a journey to the center of the internet," and...
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if you look at the violent crime committed with guns in our cities today, these assault weapons that look like the m-16 or the ak-47 didn't figure in those importantly. those are mostly handguns or pistols. assault weapons look scary and i think they are easy to scare people about. they have figured of course in the gun massacres like aurora and others but even those are just committed with semiautomatic pistols and a large capacity of magazines which was part of the assault weapons ban. >> host: a lot of people probably don't understand the difference to the semi-automatic, the fully automatic and the single shot pistol. >> guest: they pulled the trigger in as much time it fires a bullet and when it comes into the chamber and you are ready to fire again the same with a semi-automatic pistol and a semi-automatic assault weapon the to to squeeze the trigger each time and squeeze fast. we can squeeze past. host with a fully automatic you just told a backend with this you have to twist. >> guest: if you have a magazine, 100 rounds shooting in the aurora massacre in the movie theater tha
if you look at the violent crime committed with guns in our cities today, these assault weapons that look like the m-16 or the ak-47 didn't figure in those importantly. those are mostly handguns or pistols. assault weapons look scary and i think they are easy to scare people about. they have figured of course in the gun massacres like aurora and others but even those are just committed with semiautomatic pistols and a large capacity of magazines which was part of the assault weapons ban....
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new york city's laws are almost as strict as they were in the district of columbia. poster the loss in new york and i know you get into this one about do with the conceal carry laws, who has the right to get a permit to carry a gun and how do you think that should be handled? >> guest: in general, all gun legislation on who can own guns aside from what was talked about before, but under what circumstances and when you carry it when you don't should all be as local as possible. people in new york the different worlds and people in new york city, then people in montana or texas probably. they are best able to decide what kind of roles they should have. unfortunately the latter state, the gun lobby has made it possible, impossible for local jurisdictions to make their own rules. how did the state legislatures said in the capital of this day. posted the state legislatures said you couldn't have any laws. >> guest: that's outrageous and defend linking. if hysteria that produces bauxite. it is not clear thinking about the problem we have and how we can intelligently deal w
new york city's laws are almost as strict as they were in the district of columbia. poster the loss in new york and i know you get into this one about do with the conceal carry laws, who has the right to get a permit to carry a gun and how do you think that should be handled? >> guest: in general, all gun legislation on who can own guns aside from what was talked about before, but under what circumstances and when you carry it when you don't should all be as local as possible. people in...
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in times square in the new york city and classrooms around the country in paris and iraq and afghanistan people are watching the u.s. presidential inauguration. they've all come there and there is a big crowd on the mall. i'm going to speak to you today about this great historic subject come of this institution and i am not -- i'm going to do it in the same way in which organized the book. rather the book is not chronological. it's not divided that starts off with george washington and then john adams to going to the president. instead it is divided by the various parts of the day and then i sprinkle vignettes. some of them very serious, some of them of course very traditional, and a lot of them i'm always looking for those, too. i also going to cover some things we are not going to see it coming inauguration in january because this time we do not have a change of power. as we are not going to have that transition as we see sometimes. but nevertheless in the morning at inauguration when a president does the office come here is a 1961 dwight eisenhower thinking the staff at the white hous
in times square in the new york city and classrooms around the country in paris and iraq and afghanistan people are watching the u.s. presidential inauguration. they've all come there and there is a big crowd on the mall. i'm going to speak to you today about this great historic subject come of this institution and i am not -- i'm going to do it in the same way in which organized the book. rather the book is not chronological. it's not divided that starts off with george washington and then...
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what city on my summer vaiuation. the first belief that five boats put in a metaphor call room told and together told to agree on anything let alone deciding what the five most moving, beautifully crafting, humbling, deserving and mind blowing books could never do so without if not bloodshed serious odium. i took on the task thinking it would be mostly worthwhile and interesting. i would have four new enemy out there in the poetry world. it didn't happen that way. we agreed early on and easily we were in search of enduring merit. that was all. it was scary that first conference call. i felt sure i wasn't the only one that thought yeah right enduring merit except that one could another's offensive and then what? but my fellow panel is tracy cay smith. [cheering and applause] boar patrick, [cheering and applause] dana and i have lockerred in that metaphor call room all summer emerged not only in take but breathlessly in sync. the lasting poetry, the poetry that brought -- pushing other work away. we didn't disagree. we
what city on my summer vaiuation. the first belief that five boats put in a metaphor call room told and together told to agree on anything let alone deciding what the five most moving, beautifully crafting, humbling, deserving and mind blowing books could never do so without if not bloodshed serious odium. i took on the task thinking it would be mostly worthwhile and interesting. i would have four new enemy out there in the poetry world. it didn't happen that way. we agreed early on and easily...
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the union had chanced the bombardment of the city of vicksburg, and new orleans had fallen. the tennessee, cumberland, and mississippi rivers seem to belong the north, not the south. and it must have seemed for a time in 1862 that this combination of events, particularly the naval successes for the union, were about to end the war between the states. and then the trend line changed. the father of water that lincoln boasted now flowed unvexed to the sea, became vexed all over again. so jim, let's start with you. what happened and why? >> well, the union navy was on a roll in the fall and winter of '61 and '62 and the spring of 1862. and it looked like they were going to open up the mississippi river completely in the summer of 1862. vicksburg was really the only confederate bastion still on the mississippi river, and both the sea-going fleet under, now-admiral david farrogot came up from the gulf of mexico to vicksburg and the so-called we were flotilla of river boats fought down the mississippi, capturing memphis on the way and a number of other places as well, and they comb
the union had chanced the bombardment of the city of vicksburg, and new orleans had fallen. the tennessee, cumberland, and mississippi rivers seem to belong the north, not the south. and it must have seemed for a time in 1862 that this combination of events, particularly the naval successes for the union, were about to end the war between the states. and then the trend line changed. the father of water that lincoln boasted now flowed unvexed to the sea, became vexed all over again. so jim,...
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. >> host: dodge or -- >> guest: dodge city is a good example. there were laws against that. you had to deposit your arms. if you were a cowboy who came in from the plains there was place where you were supposed to store your pistol if you had one. >> host: that didn't fit with the way most people think about it. >> guest: this is in settlements. knotted out in the wild prairie. but they're like towns everywhere today. you need a little law and order in towns and it's hard to keep that up if erv is pull ought a pistol. >> host: even the shootout at the okay corral was gun control. >> guest: it started because of ike had been arrested or accused of violating the local ordinance that forbids carrying a firearm openly around town. >> host: incidentally, the understanding of what gun rights were for began to evolve in the 19th century in particular in the south. in the earl 19th century there was a big problem with duels. duels between gentlemen, obviously the most famous one is aaron burr and alexander hamilton. but this is dueling was fairly common, about it was frowned upon, a
. >> host: dodge or -- >> guest: dodge city is a good example. there were laws against that. you had to deposit your arms. if you were a cowboy who came in from the plains there was place where you were supposed to store your pistol if you had one. >> host: that didn't fit with the way most people think about it. >> guest: this is in settlements. knotted out in the wild prairie. but they're like towns everywhere today. you need a little law and order in towns and it's...
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and those days even chicago is not a major city. it's a big city, it doesn't have the prominence of new york or philadelphia lincoln is from springfield. and in his view he has a hick from nowhere in the white house completely incapable of doing the job. the job he should have had. and he is agree at telling lincoln you should what i tell you and does this. the crisis for the presidency starting to resolve around fort sumter. it is beseeched by members of the south come down to what should we do? so sue ward -- south carolina having -- that's right. and sumter is essentially one of the last two federal territories in the state. the only one important. so the position is that the south is bless -- bluffing. they don't think they are serious. hay don't mean it. they have the fever. if we let them go, six months from now they'll come back and come back. it's not a problem here. so he said look, let's let them have it. pull the troops. everything, fine. and he said everything is not fine. what beshould do is start a war with spain or fr
and those days even chicago is not a major city. it's a big city, it doesn't have the prominence of new york or philadelphia lincoln is from springfield. and in his view he has a hick from nowhere in the white house completely incapable of doing the job. the job he should have had. and he is agree at telling lincoln you should what i tell you and does this. the crisis for the presidency starting to resolve around fort sumter. it is beseeched by members of the south come down to what should we...
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right now, however, i'm looking down on a busy city at rush hour. the streets below are twin ribbons of sparkling red and white. taillights on the cars moving away from my vantage point provide the red, and the headlights of those coming toward me the white. it's logical to assume all or most are homeward bound at the end of a day's work. i wonder why some social engineer hasn't tried to get them to trade homes. the traffic is equally heavy in both directions, so if they all lived in the end of town where they worked they'd save a lot of travel time. but better forget i said that, and don't even think it, or some bureaucrat will try to do it. i wonder, though, about the people in those cars, who they are, what they do, what they're thinking about as they head for the warmth of home and family. come to think of it, i've met them--oh, maybe not those particular individuals, but still, i feel i know them. some social planners refer to them as the masses, which only proves they don't know them. i've been privileged to meet people all over this land in t
right now, however, i'm looking down on a busy city at rush hour. the streets below are twin ribbons of sparkling red and white. taillights on the cars moving away from my vantage point provide the red, and the headlights of those coming toward me the white. it's logical to assume all or most are homeward bound at the end of a day's work. i wonder why some social engineer hasn't tried to get them to trade homes. the traffic is equally heavy in both directions, so if they all lived in the end of...